Soul-Calendar, Week 12 after Easter

******* Sorry this week s Calendar is late. -starman The Calendar of the Soul Rudolf Steiner gave out the Soul-Calendar in 1912, consisting of 52

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******* Sorry this week's Calendar is late. -starman

The "Calendar of the Soul"

Rudolf Steiner gave out the 'Soul-Calendar' in 1912, consisting of 52
meditative mantras to enable us to experience the 'astral' (soul) events
occurring within us as well as in Nature during the year, starting with the
first mantra every year on Easter Sunday.
These mantras for each week are well known to many students of Steiner,
but the original "Calendar " also had 12 Images of the Zodiac, to be
meditated with each month (to sense the working of the 'solar' forces in the
cosmos), plus a listing of the Moon's phases & position in the signs each
night (for sensing the 'lunar' forces), and a list of dates of births and
deaths of spiritual figures and dates of events to contemplate on specific
days.
Here's the Soul-Calendar restored to its complete form.

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The Sun, according to the Doctor, is under the influence of the
constellation GEMINI from June 16th to July 20th in our era. A version of
the symbolic image of the TWINS in the original Soul-Calendar, done from
Steiner's sketches & indications, is attached to this post.

This week's mantra.
For those not familiar with the use of mantras: The anthroposophic path
uses symbolic images like the Zodiac image ("Imaginations") to awaken
spiritual sight, and mantras ("Inspirations") to begin spiritual hearing.
The meaning of the words of a mantra at first sight is not important,
but rather
reciting it and entering with deeper soul-forces into its inner experience.
Also, these mantras were created in the German language and have their
rhythms in that, so learning an English version is just a step to using the
original; I've kept close to it in translating, so anyone can easily go from
English to German.

The world's beautiful glitter
Forces me, out of Soul's Deeps,
My individual life's godly forces
To World-Flowing to release;
My self to abandon
Trusting only in my seeking
In World-Light and World-Warmth.

This week is the event the previous several week's mantras have been
leading up to: it is the irresistible drive of the deepest forces of the
soul
to surrender ourselves to the light and warmth of the upper spheres. The
motif of St. John's/Midsummer: "To find yourself, first lose yourself."

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The Moon positions and phases for the week are listed below along with
some of the spiritual figures connected with the days.